Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 174-5):
The feature [delineating] is realised through an embodied vector that configures one or more borders – as in example (11). The image shows a number of lists of thematic categories on the whiteboard. In sync with the underlining in language, the teacher’s left hand is angled at the wrist with fingers straightened to configure PARALINGUISTIC DEIXIS as [delineating]. She is identifying the border between the category heading work and the related list of words underneath.
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[1] As before, this gesture does not serve a deictic function because it does not realise a distinction in relation to the here-&-now of the speaker/gesturer.
[2] To be clear, the meaning recoverable from the exophoric reference realised by this gesture is the vertical list of words 'related to the Theme of work'. The actual division between the title and the list of words is irrelevant to the meaning made in the speaker's text, so drawing attention to it with a gesture would serve no purpose.
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